Envelope-tablet



(No Model.)

R. W. BURNS.

ENVELOPE TABLET.

N0.s99,829. Patent ed Mar. 19, 1889 QmVEvwooa-o N PETERS, mwulhogn m. Wuhingmm D, c.

UNITED STATES ROBERT V. BURNS,

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or DAYTON, OHIO.

ENVELOPE-TABLET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 399,829, dated March 19, 18819.

Application filed December-6, 1888. Serial No. 292,777. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, ROBERT W. BURNS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Dayton, in the county of Montgomery, State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Envelope-Tablet, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

My invention has for its object to provide an envelope'package of a form most convenient for handling and rapid use, and which consists in the construction hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Hitherto an envelope pad or tablet has been in use wherein the envelopes are placed directly one over the other and secured together by a cloth backing gummed to one edge of the envelopes. This package is adapted only to a small number of envelopes. As the envelopes are placed one directly over the other, the package soon reaches such a height as to be inconvenient for addressing. I overcome this limitation and obtain a more practicable tablet by arranging the envelopes so that they overlap each other, but are not directly one above the other. In other words, they break joints with each other. The envelopes are secured by adhesive material to a suitable backing of pasteboard or similar comparatively stiff material. An indefinite number of envelopes may be thus put up in a single tablet without unduly increasing the thickness of the same, and the envelopes will lie in the most convenient position for addressing with the hand resting on the desk in the ordinary way.

In the drawings, like letters referring to like parts throughout, Figure 1 is a plan view of my tablet with the top thrown back, a part thereof being broken away. Fig. 2 is an edge View of the same, the dotted lines showing the cover in its closing position.

A is a stiff backing of paper-board or similar material.

(t denotes the inner and a the outer end of this backing.

B B, &c., represent a series of overlapping envelopes detachably connected at their lower margins in any suitable way to the back A. Of these the first envelope, B, is attached by its lower side margin to the back A at a point from its inner end, a, equal to the width of the envelope, and is folded down against the backing. The next envelope, B, is at tached to the backing at a point slightly removed toward its outer end. Each succes sive envelope is attached in the same way, so thatthe envelopes overlap and their upper margins break joints with each other. The series when completed will all lie at an incline to the backing A, with their faces toward its outer end. The thickness of the package may be varied according to the in clination at which they are attached. The size of the package in point of number is simply limited to the length of the backing and to the closeness to each other with which the envelopes are attached thereto.

0 is a top or cover connected to the inner end, a, of the backing A by a flexible connection, D, and is adapted to close down over the faces of the envelopes. It is preferably made of blotting material and serves as a blotting-pad as well as a cover.

It will be readily understood that the e11- velopes maybe attached directly to the backing or to a thin sheet of cloth or paper, which is in turn fastened to the backing. It will be equally understood that any other suitable means than adhesive material may be used to effect the detachable connections of the envelopes to the backing. The advantages and use of this tablet are evident from the description.

lVhat I claim, and desire to secure by Let ters Patent of the United States, is as follows:

1. An envelope-tablet consisting of a suitable backing having attached thereto a series of envelopes overlapping and breaking joints with each other, substantially as described.

2. An envelope-tablet consisting of a suitable backing having detachably connected thereto a series of envelopes overlapping and breaking joints with each other, substantially as described.

An envelope tablet consisting of a suitable backing having attached thereto a series of envelopes overlapping and breaking joints with each other and a top or cover connected to said backing by a flexible connection, substantially as described} 4:. The envelope-tablet herein described,

to said backing by a flexible connection, suboonsisting of a backing of paper-board or stantially as described.

equivalent stiii' material, a series of envelopes overlapping" and breaking joints With each other, having one margin detachably connected by adhesive material or otherwise to said backing, and a blotter top or cover united ROBERT VV. BURNS.

In presence of- WILLIAM B. SULLIVAN, E. E. RICE. 

